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My girls are acting springish here in Oregon too! Molting, mating.. and it looks like we have some really nice weather coming next week. My Rouen laid her first egg just before Christmas, then two more and that was that. Early eggs would be so appreciated :)

I have a Cayuga who will be 9 weeks on Monday, also from Metzer. Her name is Spunk (my 7 year old named them) I wonder if they're sisters? Fiona sounds *exactly* like Spunk, who sounds like our other adult ladies, so I definitely think she is a she! Congrats :D We got spooked when our Rouen...

That makes sense. They might have to have a lawyer change the contracts everyone signed, and everyone who lives there would need to sign the new agreement, which does sound like a ginormous hassle if that's the case. I think you could go with the argument that fowl and waterfowl are different...

Thanks! I read Holderread's guide to raising ducks yesterday, and he says to leave the tape on 10-14 days. He calls it slipped wing, I think, but it sounds like the same thing. But I couldn't wait and took it off today. The girls were so patient and sweet about it! When the tape first came...

I'm having a hard time deciding how long to leave it on. Last time I did a full wrap at about 6 weeks, on our mystery duck who is a bit smaller than our Welsh Harlequins, and she unwrapped herself on the third day and was totally healed. These two are later and bigger and the Rouen's wing was...

What Welshies said! Ducks and chickens both are delicious and easy to catch because they are asleep at night and have poor night vision, so predators are highly motivated to get to them, and they have all night to work on getting in. Ducks are especially attractive because they don't really...

Did you check to see if your city/county posts their zoning codes online? Where I live, it's a county thing. If you can find the code that defines what is legal for fowl, you might find that it doesn't agree with what they told you. This is from my county, as an example...

So cute!! I don't see anything weird, but it's kind of hard to tell. When my two 'lings were littler their little crops would get shockingly full sometimes, so I'm guessing that's probably all it is. One of my older ducks stuffs herself until her crop looks like she is neck-pregnant sometimes -...

Just curious - is it a zoning problem, or a homeowners' association? To show that it doesn't make sense to ban ducks as pets, I would start by comparing them to pets that are allowed. Dogs can be dangerous to your neighbors and cats are dangerous to wildlife, but ducks are a danger to no...

I did the wing-only way, and so far it's going great! I ended up using a strip of duct tape about 18" long, ripped in half lengthwise. Then I - put a little bit of oil in my left hand,and painted it down the centers of the duct tape strips with my right finger to make them less sticky. I'm not...

Duck Drover, this is exactly what I'm trying to figure out how to do. I'm not sure I totally understand the figure 8 but, I'll give it a go! I'm out of paper tape and vet wrap, so I might try masking tape topped with duct tape. I have 7 week olds, a rouen and a cayuga, and the there's nothing I...

Hi! Has anyone mastered duck egg mayo? I've gone through a lot of eggs, trying recipes I found online, but I keep making icky mayo. Blech. I'm trying to find more ways to eat our eggs - how do you eat yours?

Here she is two days ago.. And I took these this morning. You can see where new cleaner feathers are exposed where they used to be covered. Is this normal?

My silver WH lost ALL of her flight feathers yesterday! Not that she was planning to fly anywhere ;) A few minutes with Google tells me it's normal to molt this time of year, but jeez this seems like a lot. And it's just Wiggletail, although she's 2 but my other three ducks just hatched this...

Hi Anniekc I'm no expert, but since nobody else has chimed in.. I've been to two feed stores here looking for duck food with no luck, but they both told me to feed "broiler" chicken feed, because it has more protein, which duckies need. Mine have been on that since I've had them, but it's...

Oh Donna, I'm so so sorry :( It sounds like Joy had a happy life with you.

I was just looking around for homemade duck food ideas, and came across a blog (http://www.beksbackyard.com) with a photo of a female WH that looks almost exactly like yours with the dark head, arnaudgf - She says she has two ducks and a drake, so it must be a girl :) I also read...

Ha! I'm sure she was - I had a bag of peas! That's her "PEAS!!!" face ;)

I'm crossing my fingers for a girl for you! I have two Saxonies who the breeder believed were a boy and a girl at 7 weeks, because one wasn't nearly as loud as the others. She had a lot of experience with WHs but these were her first Saxony babies. Turns out one was just kind of quiet - now...

Aah that's more cuteness than I can take! Congratulations!